User talk:Danfogel

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Making Recommendations to Wikipedia for Site Changes
I've searched all over the "contact us" & "questions" pages for a place to merely make suggestions, and was at a loss.

1) I really think such a place and easy means to find it should exist.

That is, there should be a forum for users to recommend improvements to Wikipedia.

And here are 3 of these recommendations, for a lack of a more appropriate place to post them:

2) Wikipedia should offer its users the option to mark certain articles as a 'favorite,' so while logged in, users can easily return to - via a list - any number of articles they personally value.

3) Wikipedia should have a "did you mean" feature when users search for a misspelled term, such as the one dictionary.com offers. If one looks up a word in dictionary.com and it is misspelled, the site offers several suggestions of words that the user may have meant to write.  This will not only help people find the articles they are seeking, in an age where spelling is worsening due to computer spell checks, but will also help people find articles they seek that may be worded just a little differently than how they wrote their search term.

For example, 'Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' is a word in the english language. But if one replaces the last vowel with an 'o' to yield: 'Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosos', then Wikipedia falls short of suggesting any similar terms.

4) Finally, Wikipedia should have an FAQ which allows a user to literally ask a question, and the site will direct the user to possible FAQ's that may answer their inquiry, based upon keywords in their question. Friendster.com has such an FAQ (when contacting customer service, any inquiry will be filtered through such a system).

Thank you

Sincerely, Danfogel 18:32, 18 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi, yeah, this site can be confusing! It's an ever expanding experiment, with the meta information in constant battle between completeness and simplicity.
 * In specific reply to your questions:
 * 1) Proposals go at Village pump (proposals). (and i've updated the Questions page to better point that out)
 * 2) At the top of every page, in the row of tabs with "discussion" "edit this page" "history", click on "watch" to add it to your watchlist.
 * 3) It's currently unfeasible due to the processor power required. We simply don't have enough servers. Hence the search that we do have is often unavailable, presenting users with just a pair of search boxes for google & yahoo.
 * 4) There are the static FAQs. Your suggestion is good, and you're welcome to propose it (at the village pump), but I'll warn you that the wish-list for new features grows much faster than the number of developers that volunteer their time ;)
 * Hope that helps. --Quiddity 21:28, 18 March 2007 (UTC)